How to keep your fruit salad fresh and delicious.

It’s not easy keeping your fruit salad fresh, but it’s worth it.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Don’t keep fruit salad in the fridge.

2. Use a wide, shallow container

3. Separate ingredients by color

4. Wash your hands after cutting

5. Don’t wash fruit salad until ready to serve

Step 1: Don’t keep fruit salad in the fridge

Most fruit salads are best served at room temperature. Refrigeration will turn them into mushy messes.

Why does this happen?

1. Cold temperatures slow down enzymes and water evaporation.

2. Air becomes trapped between fruit pieces, causing them to stick together.

3. Water will condense, making fruit pieces heavier and slowing down the flow of liquid.

Step 2: Use a wide, shallow container

This is the most important step. A wide, shallow container holds more air, keeping fruit salad fresh longer.

A glass container is ideal, but any container that’s wide and shallow will do the job.

Step 3: Separate ingredients by color

Fruit salad is full of colorful fruit pieces. By separating them by color, it makes it easier to see the individual pieces and keep track of which one is which.

Red, yellow, green, blue, orange… whatever colors you want, just separate them by color.

Step 4: Wash your hands after cutting

Washing your hands before you cut fruit will prevent germs from spreading.

After you cut fruit, rinse your hands with water and dry them with a clean towel.

Step 5: Don’t wash fruit salad until ready to serve

This is the final step. This means that you’ll only wash the fruit salad before you actually serve it to your guests.

It’s important to not wash your fruit salad until you’re about to serve it.

If you wash it before then, you risk washing away the freshness.

Your fruit salad should be perfectly fresh and appetizing when you serve it.